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East Erie Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19124;
www.bachmanntrains.com, has introduced its HO scale Spectrum model of a Baltimore & Ohio 2-8-8-4 lo- comotive. It comes DCC equipped with die-cast trucks, double brass flywheels, and extra electrical pickup in the ten- der. Versions include an engine with either a single headlight/large dome or dual headlight/small dome or early large sand dome or late small sand dome. These engines retail for $425.00. In addition, Bachmann is offering a 380-ton Schnabel transformer car. Features are 16 sets of 125-ton roller bearing trucks, prototypically correct 36-inch metal wheels, RP25 wheel con- tours, detailed transformer load and molded hyraulic lines and pumps. The cars come in blue and gray with a gray load and black trucks; gray and black with oxide load with black trucks and red and gray with a gray load and sil- ver trucks. These cars sell for $250.00. Broadway Limited, 9 East Tower Circle, Ormond Beach, FL 32174; web- site
www.broadway-limited.com, has brought back the HO scale California Zephyr. It features ABS plastic con- struction with nickel plating, plus each car’s name and road number, complete interior detail, interior LED lighting, tinted windows, interior window blinds, sprung diaphragms, lighted drum head, separately-applied details
and full underbody detail. Cars include the coaches, sleepers, diners, baggage and Vista Dome cars. The dome style cars retail for $79.99; the non-dome style cars are $74.99 and the eleven car set is $799.99. Also available from Broadway is the Pennsylvania M1a/b 4-8-2 locomotive. It is being presented for the first time with the Paragon2 sound and control system. Other fea- tures are the super-weighted construc- tion, operation in both d.c. and DCC, five-pole can motor, factory installed engineer and fireman and operating knuckle couplers. It comes in both d.c. and DCC Post 1946 versions and un- decorated or lettered. The retail price is $399.99.
Spring Mills Depot, P.O. Box 1616, Spring Mills, MD 21158, has produced a new HO scale car, the Pullman-Stan- dard Canstock boxcar. They feature sharp detail, including correct roof panels, wire grabs, metal wheels, sepa- rately applied door tracks and Kadee couplers. Road names in multiple num- bers are Baltimore & Ohio with translucent roof panel; CSX with steel roof panel, Early-Mid Chessie with translucent roof panel and Mid-late Chessie with steel roof. Decorated kits are $49.95 and undecorated kits are $39.95.
True Line Trains, 445-1 Edgely Blvd., Concord, Ontario, Canada L4K
An Outstanding New Book About Railroading! Merchants Despatch, Roger C. Hinman
Merchants Despatch, formed in the mid-19th century as part of American Express, became an independent part of the New York Central family. Tis book traces its 150-year history to the year 2000, not only the long and complex corporate history, but also much informa- tion and many details about the design, construction, maintenance and operation of the vast car fleet. Toroughly researched and extensively documented, this is an authoritative book. Freight car enthusiasts will naturally welcome this work, but anyone interested in North American freight railroading will find it a valuable addition to their library.
296 pages, 298 photographs, over 90 drawings and graphics, bibliography, index. Price: $65
Railroads of Arizona, Volume 6 David F. Myrick A new volume in the late David Myrick’s noted Arizona series, cover- ing the copper railroads of Jerome and other Northern Arizona railroads, including the Grand Canyon Railway. 248 pages, 235 photos, 30 maps, bibli- ography, index. Price: $60
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Southern Pacific’s Sacramento Shops, Robert A. Pecotich
The largest and oldest of SP’s General
Shops, Sacramento and its thousands of employees built or rebuilt hundreds of steam and diesel locomotives, and thou- sands of freight and passenger cars. 496 pages, 605 photos, 21 drawings, bibliography, index. Price: $85
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